Let's look at it a slightly different way.......we have a "pot" of research dollars, for the sake of argument let's say 100 billion dollars.......
Should we spend 90% of it to research AIDS, which might effect 10% of the population.......
Or should we spend 90% of it to benefit diseases that will (eventually) effect 90% of the population?
Which would be the most "equitable"?
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or how about we look at it in "political reality."
1) you have your dummys over here. they will pull the "all dummy all the time" lever in each and every election just because it is what they do.
2) you have conservatives over there. they will consider all positions, but then probably as not vote conservative every time (but not always, see "obama" if you have any questions...)
3) then there is that interesting mix of homos, illegals (don't ask why, but they vote too,) feminists, felons, bums, students (babies, really,) retards, anarchists and whatnot... that actually get to decide elections.
the american political process is not all that dissimilar to any given episode of the tv show "survivor."
pandering to the fringe, supporting the "cause du jure" is the way to get elected.
liberals know this more than anyone. lying, playing on emotion, their "innability to recall" any mis-steps of their policy is how they sometmes win. yet everytime they do "pull one over" on america, the population quickly recovers and votes them out in the next election cycle.
the only real problem, when liberals do screw the country over in a presidential election, is when their side maybe gets to put a justice on the supreme court. its a good thing that real americans are a hearty bunch... and only liberal justices retire or die during liberal periods. so the supreme court will always be a 5-4 place of business. good business, smart business.
so. does the government misspend billions of dollars to attract the votes of the degenerates of society to get reelected? they do.
is that right? no way.
will it ever stop? not as long as there are liberals. liberals would rather waste it all to save one crack-whore than 10,000 contributing members of society.
and that's the way it is...